Paul Bishop

Overview

Co-Director, Centre for Advanced Discovery and Experimental Therapeutics (CADET; http://cadetmanchester.org)

Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Chair of Research Comittee, Macular Society

Chair of Academic Sub-Committee, Royal College of Ophthalmologists

Chief Scientific Officer, Opticin Therapeutics (http://www.opticin-therapeutics.com)

Associate Director, NIHR Wellcome Trust Manchester Clinical Research Facility

Biography

Paul is an ophthalmologist and clinician scientist.  Soon after graduating in Medicine at Nottingham University he moved to Manchester.  This is where he undertook his postgraduate medical training and he was appointed as a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital in 1998.  He specialises in the management of medical retinal conditions.

Whilst training as an ophthalmologist he completed a PhD in biochemistry (1993).  From 1991-2006 he held successive Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellowships including a Vision Research Training Fellowship, a Clinician Scientist Fellowship and a Senior Clinical Fellowship; he was appointed to a personal Chair in 2006.

He is currently Co-Director of CADET.  This Centre aims to discover and develop new medicines for common age-related diseases.  It primarily uses proteomics and metabolomics as discovery platforms, and is taking new drugs through to clinical trials.

His research spans from laboratory-based research through to clinical trials.